Ferrari 250 GT Coupé Pininfarina - Riva Interior

Chassis number: 1435 GT Model year: 1959 Mileage: 4666 km Exterior colour: Grigio Conchiglia MM 16249 Interior colour: Connolly Leather Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine) - Presented in its exquisite original colour combination of Grigio Conchiglia over Verde Aquamarine leather - Complete history known and documented. - Ferrari Classiche certified, confirming the car's matching-numbers chassis, engine and gearbox. - One of only 354 examples produced - Desirable Series One with drum brakes and offset lever four-speed transmission Chronology: August 12, 1959 Factory completion date September 1959 Delivered new via Johnny Von Neumann's official dealership, Ferrari Representatives of Hollywood, CA/USA. Specially ordered by the first owner, who wanted an interior comparable to that of his Ford T-Bird. January 1960 Sold to the first owner, CA/USA 1970 Sold to Richard Mills in OH/USA 1979 to 1980 Listed in the Ferrari Owners Club USA membership roster as owned by Richard Mills, President of the Mills Alloy Steel Company and resident in Cleveland Heights, OH/USA. 1981 Sold by Mills to Dutch broker Robert De La Rive Box, Switzerland. 1981 Re-sold by De La Rive Box to Autodino SA & Foitek AG, official Ferrari dealers in Zurich, Switzerland. 1981 Driven by Karl Foitek on Swiss dealer license plates of Zurich “ZH 32402”. 1984 Sold by Foitek to Gösta Fredriksson, a plastic manufacturer resident in Örebro, 1986 Registered in Sweden on license plates “MDF-565”. 1999 Still owned by Fredriksson. December 19, 2000 For sale at the Bonhams & Brooks auction held at Hotel Palace in Gstaad, estimated price Swiss Francs CHF 85'000 to CHF 100'000, sold for Swiss Francs CHF 97'000 (or US$ 57'738) to Philippe Lancsweert in Brussels, 2004 For sale at the Artcurial Briest Poulain-Le Fur auction in Paris, estimated price Euro €80'000 to €90'000, sold to Count Hubertus Dönhoff, Germany. In the auction catalogue it states that the engine was rebuilt in Modena one year prior. March 2013 Still owned by Dönhoff, car has the original turquoise interior. 2013 Sold by Dönhoff through Axel Schütte Fine Cars GmbH to Helmut Eberlein Automobile in Kassel, 2013 Displayed by Eberlein Automobile during the 25th Annual Techno Classica in Essen, 2014 Ferrari Classiche “Red Book” certified. Factory Certificate of Authenticity #4357 F issued. May 2019 Advertised for sale in the English magazine “Octane”, by Will Stone Historic Cars Ltd., England Car is registered in the United Kingdom. 2020 Owned by Rutger H. J. P. Houtkamp’s The Houtkamp Collection in The Netherlands, New Schedoni interior in the original colour Verde VM 3476 (Aquamarine) is fitted. Later sold.